When 11-year-old Wayne Landry discovered Sebastian Inlet, Lyndon Baines Johnson was president, the first moon landing was still a year away and Sebastian Inlet State Park didn’t yet exist. Just remember that snook are not fooled by old or damaged live bait.Wayne "Snookman" Landry chats with an angler at Sebastian Inlet's North jetty. Of course, free-lined shrimp (the bigger, the better!) are good, too.
Fly anglers should consider tossing what I consider to be the best snook fly ever, Norm Zeigler’s white “Schminnow”. But they’ve also been known to readily attack lots of other shiny offerings, like Live Target Scaled Sardines (suspending, one of the Unfair Lure’s slow-sinkers (Paul’s Unfair Greenie), or the old standby-the 52M18 MirrOlure. CAL (in glow) seems to work well, as does D.O.A.’s 3-inch shrimp (glow with a fire tail). However, we don’t have as much white bait in our inshore waters so they’ll readily attack almost anything that’s light-colored and/or shiny. Down south, they’re pretty much tuned into white bait (sardines, glass minnows) and sometimes won’t even give an artificial lure a second look. I think you’ll find that our Big Bend snook are not picky when it comes to what they’ll attack in the way of lures. That’s important, as snook season opened on March 1 and you can land one, take his photo, and maybe even eat him.
So… the old boundary of the 29 th parallel, at Yankeetown and the mouth of the Withlacoochee River, just isn’t as “solid” as it used to be. In past years, lots of snook have been caught at Cedar Key, Waccasassa and even at Salt Creek, north of Suwannee. But in recent years, we’ve not had many really bad snook kills, and the northern limit is sneaking northwards again. Since then, we’ve had off-and-on cold snaps every five or six years that killed lots of snook taken unawares of the temperature drop and pushed that northern limit back to Anclote Key, off Tarpon Springs. In Natural North Florida, and in terms of snook fishing, we have an important line of latitude, too.Įons ago, when I was a kid, there was a “regular” snook fishery at Crystal River.
If you remember your Korean War history from high school, you’ll likely recall that the 38 th Parallel, or line of latitude, was important because it marked the border between North and South Korea.
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